CVE-2021-37151

CyberArk Identity 21.5.131, when handling an invalid authentication attempt, sometimes reveals whether the username is valid. In certain authentication policy configurations with MFA, the API response length can be used to differentiate between a valid user and an invalid one aka Username...

Insecure Access Controls

github.com/argoproj/argo-cd uses insecure access controls. The Argo API does not implement anti-automation measures such as rate limiting, account lockouts, or other anti-brute-force measures. An attacker is able to repeatedly perform authentication attempts to discover user credentials...

in kestasjk/webdiplomacy

✍️ Description According to previous explanation about weak cryptographic tokens, you also send the same weak token to users that forgot their passwords. here an attacker can also do Bruteforce attacks to take control of users accounts. 🕵️‍♂️ Proof of Concept...

None in firefly-iii/firefly-iii

Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts. The software does not implement sufficient measures to prevent multiple failed authentication attempts within in a short time frame, making it more susceptible to brute force attacks. STEPS FOR REPRODUCTION: 1Go to...

PT-2021-19850 · Nextcloud +2 · Nextcloud Server +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Nextcloud Server versions prior to 19.0.13 Nextcloud Server versions prior to 20.0.11 Nextcloud Server versions prior to 21.0.3 Description: The issue affects Nextcloud Server, a package that handles data storage. In the affected versions,...

Kubernetes Used in Brute-Force Attacks Tied to Russia’s APT28

U.S. and U.K. authorities are warning that the APT28 advanced-threat actor APT – a.k.a. Fancy Bear or Strontium, among other names – has been using a Kubernetes cluster in a widespread campaign of brute-force password-spraying attacks against hundreds of government and private sector targets...

Beware password-spraying fancy bears

The NSA, FBI, and CISA, in cooperation with the UKs National Cyber Security Centre NCSC, have issued a report that describes in detail why, and how, they think that a Russian military unit is behind large-scale brute-force attacks on the cloud-IT resources of government and private sector compani...

More Russian Hacking

Two reports this week. The first is from Microsoft, which wrote: As part of our investigation into this ongoing activity, we also detected information-stealing malware on a machine belonging to one of our customer support agents with access to basic account information for a small number of our...

Data for 700M LinkedIn Users Posted for Sale

A new posting with 700 million LinkedIn records has appeared on a popular hacker forum, according to researchers. Analysts from Privacy Sharks stumbled across the data put up for sale on RaidForums by a hacker calling himself “GOD User TomLiner.” The advertisement, posted June 22, claims that 700...

Attackers Breach Microsoft Customer Service Accounts

The same group behind the SolarWinds supply-chain attacks has been targeting Microsoft’s corporate networks to gain access to specific organizations — primarily, U.S.-based IT and government organizations. Microsoft officially announced the attacks after Reuters obtained an email sent to customer...

Detecting unknown threats: a honeypot how-to

Catching threats is tricky business, especially in todays threat landscape. To tackle this problem, for many years сybersecurity researchers have been using honeypots – a well-known deception technique in the industry. Dan Demeter, Senior Security Researcher with Kasperskys Global Research and...

SolarWinds Hackers Breach Microsoft Customer Support to Target its Customers

In yet another sign that the Russian hackers who breached SolarWinds network monitoring software to compromise a slew of entities never really went away, Microsoft said the threat actor behind the malicious cyber activities used password spraying and brute-force attacks in an attempt to guess...

New Nobelium activity

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center is tracking new activity from the NOBELIUM threat actor. Our investigation into the methods and tactics being used continues, but we have seen password spray and brute-force attacks and want to share some details to help our customers and communities prote...

New Nobelium activity

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center is tracking new activity from the NOBELIUM threat actor. Our investigation into the methods and tactics being used continues, but we have seen password spray and brute-force attacks and want to share some details to help our customers and communities prote...

Nextcloud server processing logic error vulnerability

Nextcloud is a set of open source self-hosted file synchronization and sharing communication application platform from Nextcloud, Germany. A processing logic error vulnerability exists in the Nextcloud server, which stems from the fact that the Nextcloud server is vulnerable to brute-force attack...

Information disclosure

An issue was discovered in EXCELLENT INFOTEK CORPORATION EIC E-document System 3.0. A remote attacker can use kw/auth/bbs/asp/getuseremailinfobbs.asp to obtain the contact information name and e-mail address of everyone in the entire organization. This information can allow remote attackers to...

Design/Logic Flaw

Nextcloud server before 19.0.11, 20.0.10, 21.0.2 is vulnerable to brute force attacks due to lack of inclusion of IPv6 subnets in rate-limiting considerations. This could potentially result in an attacker bypassing rate-limit controls such as the Nextcloud brute-force protection...

GHSA-R37H-J483-CJJM Improper rate limiting in Koel

Koel before 5.1.4 lacks login throttling, lacks a password strength policy, and shows whether a failed login attempt had a valid username. This might make brute-force attacks easier...

Improper rate limiting in Koel

Koel before 5.1.4 lacks login throttling, lacks a password strength policy, and shows whether a failed login attempt had a valid username. This might make brute-force attacks easier...

Cobalt Strike, a penetration testing tool abused by criminals

If you were to compose a list of tools and software developed by security and privacy defenders that ended up being abused by the bad guys, then Cobalt Strike would unfortunately be near the top of the list. Maybe only Metasploit could give it a run for the first place ranking. Metasploit—probabl...